Guns are awesome. As an American, I honestly love them. They are beautiful mechanisms. But in our modern world, human beings are now becoming the prey.

America seems to be infatuated with guns. Guns are simple to obtain in America. They can protect us from foreign invaders and tyranny, according to the Second Amendment. Are guns protective? Yes, but our inaction concerning gun control in America has led to widespread distribution of guns into the hands of mad men and psychopaths like James Holmes and Adam Lanza. I must say that I partially agree with President Obama’s recent executive initiatives concerning gun control.

Broad gun distribution, through legal and illegal means, amongst criminals and socio-paths has contributed to significant gun violence in America. In my honest opinion, America needs more gun control. Why does America need more gun control? Well, nations with restrictive gun laws such as England have less gun violence, while nations with minimal gun laws, like America, have overwhelming gun violence.

Critics of gun control in America, like the National Rifle Association, claim we need less gun laws to allow citizens to protect themselves. I sympathize with this viewpoint, but in the grand scheme of things, law-abiding citizens would still have guns if gun control legislation were passed. America should have more gun control, because it would limit its gun violence. Guns are prominent in not only American society, but also American culture.

Guns assisted in America gaining independence in the Revolutionary War, but that is history; we are now entering the 21st century and instead of muskets we now have fully automatic weapons capable of holding 100-round drums and firing 300 rounds per minute.

Guns are, in this day and time, assisting in the deaths of numerous innocent Americans, young and old alike in incidents such as Sandy Hook and those of the Aurora, Colo., shooting. God bless their souls.

Rather than reacting with vigilance and doubling up on safer gun control laws, it seems we are acting with hysteria and doubling up on guns. Congress has acted passively in discussing or initiating gun control legislation. Yes, guns can be used for protection, but laws are meant to protect us, too. America’s gun laws are protecting guns that are designed specifically for killing.

The absence of gun control is the absence of safety for people who cannot own guns. The U.S. Congress found in a study in 2009 that at least 45 people are killed daily by gun violence across America.

Also, the Congress confirmed that in 2005 that homicide by firearm was the second-leading cause of death of people between 10 years of age and 24 years of age - second only to motor vehicle crashes.

Not only are innocent lives lost because of gun violence, but also countless taxpayer dollars. A study by Congress of all direct and indirect gun violence indicates that gun violence costs the nation nearly $100 billion annually. I strongly disagree with President Obama in his step to implement a $500 million stimulus package to combat gun violence. Setting up a stimulus program to reduce gun violence really makes no sense.

Page 2 of 3 - Since when has a problem as drastic as gun violence been solved by having money thrown at it? Gun violence revolves around life and death, not money.

The American government and the American people should act swiftly and responsibly to limit gun violence by modifying existing gun laws, keeping weapons out of the hands of psychopaths and enforcing the current gun laws more strongly.

If the Congress can act with precision in the statistics of gun violence, why can they not act with precision in combating it?

Instead of implementing stimulus programs to limit gun violence, we need to produce more effective gun control laws or enforce the current laws we already have with more force.

Pitching money to prevent gun violence is like a pitching a cup of water on a forest fire. Until we act in passing safer gun control legislation, gun violence will only increase as guns are still evolving in their deadliness, as are human beings.

Yes, the American people have a right to protect themselves through the Second Amendment, but we still have an obligation to protect our children, who cannot possess guns and protect themselves, from gun-wielding mass-murdering socio-paths. Inaction by us and the government in passing gun control legislation has opened a massive gateway of gun distribution in America that is creating massive gun violence.

The laws of the land have been established to protect us. The law is stronger than the gun. We need to combat gun violence with the law, not with more guns.

Although lawmakers have failed in promoting safer gun control laws that combat gun violence, people such as James Holmes, Cho Seung Hui and Adam Lanza have not failed in defying the current gun measures and killing countless innocent people.

The guns in the local pawnshops all over America are coincidentally similar to Lanza’s and Cho’s weapons. These weapons have the ability to kill large numbers of people in a blink of an eye.

When a person is training at a shooting range, there is no image of a deer, there is an image of a man. Guns are instruments of war, not protection. They are destructive creations. If people can’t even go see a Batman movie without being massacred, then I believe we have a problem; something must be done to prevent such heinous acts.

I feel somewhat comforted that anti-gun folks and pro-gun folks came together to pass stricter gun laws. And I, ironically enough, commend President Obama for moving with such swiftness on the issue and being a leader by issuing executive orders. This is not a game. Something must be done.

By allowing gun violence to grow in our country, we are all playing Russian roulette with a full clip. It is a lose -lose situation for us all if we fail to control our guns and control ourselves. Until the government tries to physically take your guns, you have nothing to worry about. If and when that happens, get your Bible; guns won’t be of much help.